EUROGUSS 2018

•••6••• Innovationen Conformal cooling: specially placed coolant lines allow parts to cool faster, which increases productivity for moulding and casting manufacturers. Photo: ORNL Even more productivity Specially placed coolant lines allow parts to cool faster U S research institute Oak Ridge Na- tional Laboratory (ORNL) and an in- dustrial partner are exploring collabora- tions in advanced manufacturing research such as conformal cool- ing. These specially placed cool- ant lines allow parts to cool faster, which increases productivity for moulding and casting manufac- turers. The memorandum of understand- ing follows the partner’s decision to locate its headquarters and production operations in a Knox County business park adjacent to DOE’s Manufacturing Demonstra- tion Facility at ORNL. The lab’s expertise and unique facilities in materials science, metallurgy and advanced manufacturing attract- ed the attention of the company’s leadership during a 2015 visit to Tennessee. Cooling faster “Our researchers push the boundaries of what’s possible with materials and advanced manufacturing techniques,” said Thomas Zacharia, deputy for sci- ence and technology at ORNL. “Industri- al partners help to ensure we’re tackling the right problems, and our results help them to improve production capabilities and American competitiveness.” The industrial partner supplies specialty products to the injection moulding and die casting industries, using a proprie- tary technology to produce large-scale steel production components with con- formal cooling. These specially placed coolant lines allow parts to cool faster, which increases productivity for mould- ing and casting manufacturers. “Engi- neered thermal solutions like conformal cooling are important to many of our in- dustrial collaborators,” said Craig Blue, ORNL’s director of energy efficiency and renewable energy programmes. The partners would share mutual inter- est in several R&D areas, such as devel- opment of additive technologies in the steel tooling sector and implementation of corresponding industrial standards, he stresses. First industrial standard The industrial partner is preparing to launch the first industrial standard in conformal cooling with a series of products. Establishing a collaboration with ORNL to test and validate the tool plates and inserts would be the first step towards standardization of confor- mal cooling for the injection moulding industry, William Sames, CEO of the in- dustrial partner, said. The in-situ testing of the tool inserts is expected to be per- formed at the University of Tennessee Fibers and Composite Manufacturing Facility and Engineering Annex. Background ORNL’s industrial partner has been in business since 2001 and has sup- plied custom products in Europe for more than five years. The com- pany’s customers include original equipment manufacturers, auto- motive suppliers and companies in the consumer products and pack- aging industries. As it expands into the US market, the company plans to invest more than $20 mil- lion in East Tennessee and create 200 new jobs over the next five years. Supported by the Department of Energy ORNL’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility is supported by the Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO). AMO supports applied research, development, and demonstra- tion of new materials, information, and processes that improve American manu- facturing’s energy efficiency, as well as platform technologies for manufactur- ing clean energy products. A nonprofit limited liability company manages ORNL for DOE’s Office of Sci- ence. The Office of Science is the sin- gle largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please vis- it http://science.energy.gov and http:// www.ornl.gov . The ORNL campus is located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. Photo: Courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy Schadensf lle an Aluminium-Teilen Mit Schadensuntersuchungen an Aluminium-Bauteilen befasst sich am 6. März ein Seminar, das die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mate- rialkunde an der Technischen Hochschule Nürnberg durchführt. Ziel der Veranstaltung ist es, die spezifischen Schädigungsmecha- nismen und Schadensbilder, die für Aluminiumbauteile typisch sind, verständlich zu machen. Die Seminarteilnehmer sollen ty- pische Schäden an Al-Bauteilen selbstständig erkennen können und dazu befähigt werden, aus diesen Schäden geeignete Gegen- maßnahmen abzuleiten. Dazu glie- dert sich das Seminar in einen gro- ßen praktischen Block, ergänzt um mehrere Theorie-Einheiten. Im praktischen Teil wird anhand einer Vielzahl von Anwendungs- beispielen die Beurteilung von Schadensfällen geübt. 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